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Listed building outline: Tor View Holiday Flats 390779

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Tor View Holiday Flats 390779

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.545030 50.463866,-3.545073 50.463904,-3.545114...
• entry-date: 1994-05-02
• listed-building: 1218390
• name: Tor View Holiday Flats
• notes: Villa, divided into holiday flats. c1870s. Plastered; hipped slate roofs; stacks with plastered shafts with deep projecting cornices. PLAN: Double-depth rectangular main block with entrance on the west side and north service wing. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: Deep eaves on moulded paired eaves brackets. Stuccoed quoins; eaves band; moulded sill band; platband. Asymmetrical 2:2-window front (2 window service block set back to left). Main block broken forward in the centre with a hipped roof and left and right pilasters with sunk panels. Round-headed doorway with half-glazed front door with plain overlight, pair of first-floor round-headed windows with pilastered architraves and keyblocks. Shallow projecting lateral stack to right-hand bay with scratch-moulded panels. Left-hand bay has one first and one ground floor sash with ovolo-moulded frames, glazed with 2 over 2 pane sashes with horizontal glazing bars. Glazed porch-cum-conservatory across front with narrow segmental-headed lights, a dentil eaves cornice and gable over the (replaced) door. Service wing set back to left has paired 2-pane sash windows with ovolo-moulded frames. Right return in the same style has 2 canted bay windows. Rear elevation, prominent from the Exeter road, is also very intact with original windows and stuccoed detail. INTERIOR: Not inspected but may retain features of interest. Paired with Ambrook (qv). A good example of a conventionally-planned later Torquay villa in an unspoiled suburb. Listing NGR: SX9043563808
• reference: 390779
• start-date: 1994-05-02